Hi,

On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 07:21:56PM +0200, Chris Picton wrote:
> Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
>> Hello Chris,
>>> Are there any problems from treating all services like this -
>>> (postfix/dovecot/ftp/etc), as long as I dont try share data which is
>>> specific to each machine?
>> I think it is legitimate to share the configuration files on a shared
>> disk if you need the shared disk for _that_ service anyway. But for
>> example I would not put the OpenVPN configuration or the configuration
>> file of an apache loadbalancer on a shared disk because drbd adds
>> another dependency to the chain of things that can go wrong. So I keep
>> the dependencies as small as possible for each distinct service.
>
> Yes, that makes sense.
>
> I was thinking in the case where the service's data files are required to 
> be shared anyway, then sharing the configs can't harm anything.

This is of course preferable since you can't have configs out of sync.

Thanks,

Dejan

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